Test-drive A Teaching Key to Violets.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Malpighiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Viola walteri
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Viola walteri
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 130-02-025:
Viola walteri
FAMILY
Violaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Violaceae of the Southeastern US (McKinney & Russell, 2002)
Viola walteri var. walteri
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Viola walteri
COMMON NAME:
Walter's Violet, Prostrate Blue Violet
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_viwa_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm100313_123
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
Leaves usually purple on the under side, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm100313_132
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
A white form
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JK Marlow jkm100313_134
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
A white form
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JK Marlow jkm100313_134b
March Gadsden County FL
Angus Gholson Nature Park
A white form
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JK Marlow jkm100314_078
March Decatur County GA
Its leaves are roundish, blunt at the tip, purple beneath, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_viola_walteri
March
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu44207
April Tuscaloosa County AL
Stems rooting at nodes generating next year's plants (thus mat-forming), per Weakley's Flora.
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu55969
April Berkeley County SC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvwalteri_chauga2
April Oconee County SC
Chau-Ram County Park
Petals pale to dark blue-violet. Lateral petals bearded, per Violaceae of the Southeastern US. Castanea (McKinney & Russell, 2002).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmvwalteri_chauga2b
April Oconee County SC
Chau-Ram County Park
Stipules deeply laciniate, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm180506_1965
May Crawford County GA
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JK Marlow jkm180506_1967
May Crawford County GA
Note stipules.
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Herbarium of Clemson University h_cu10135
August Anderson County SC
An interesting transition between caulescent & acaulescent violets, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm071025_004
October Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaf blades moderately to densely puberulent over entire surface, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm071101_011
November Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
Petioles, peduncles and stems moderately to densely puberulent, per Weakley's Flora.